7 George Santayana Quotes on Ethics

George Santayana quotes on ethics

18. To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

20. Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

23. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

26. When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind...They were merely writing an eloquent epitaph for their country.

28. Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

52. Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

58. Religions are not true or false, but better or worse.